"I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow."
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"Get yourself out of the way, and let Joy have more space."
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"LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy."
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"It is Love that gives joy to happiness."
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"This dance is the joy of existence."
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"Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter."
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"The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision."
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"There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation."
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"Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make."
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"Joy is a big stress buster too. Measure your success by how much fun you're having."
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"Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living."
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"And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born."
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"My joy is as painful as my pain."
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"A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it."
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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
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"Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain."
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"Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask."
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"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."
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"A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure."
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"As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity."
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